Poll: Replaying Games: What Types of Games and Why?

[Kordie]

I replay older games.

I'd say it's most likely due to my memory. When I can remember an area stone for stone, I don't like going through it again. For me to enjoy a replay of a game, enough time has to have passed for me to forget a lot of the details. Otherwise I see something familiar and it all floods back in. What kind of time-frame? well the latest games I have replayed are Half-life 1/2 and Baldur's Gate. I tried to replay Fallout NV not too long ago, but everything felt way too familiar for me to get into it.

 

[Woodsey]

I replay shit from all over the place. I'm about to start my fifth Human Revolution playthrough, and I've replayed the first and second Mafia games several times over. Anything that I've particularly enjoyed I'll replay - although it certainly helps if it has a breadth to the gameplay, in the vain of Deus Ex and Thief.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

I replay older games.

I'd say it's most likely due to my memory. When I can remember an area stone for stone, I don't like going through it again. For me to enjoy a replay of a game, enough time has to have passed for me to forget a lot of the details. Otherwise I see something familiar and it all floods back in. What kind of time-frame? well the latest games I have replayed are Half-life 1/2 and Baldur's Gate. I tried to replay Fallout NV not too long ago, but everything felt way too familiar for me to get into it.

I agree with that point with New Vegas. I got to about level 10 in a replay and then I just got bored. The beginning of the game is pretty much always the same, whereas in Fallout 3 in the beginning you could just go straight to the big places if you wanted. To get to New Vegas in NV you had to travel a certain way after completing quite a lot of quests, to get to the DC ruins in FO3 all you had to do was go there and hope you didn't get your head blown off by super mutants. If this hasn't been obvious enough, I'm currently replaying Fallout 3 because of these reasons. Mods make the replay even sweeter.

 

[Fishyash]

If the game is good. As in, so good that I feel I would like to play it again, I replay it.

It's pretty simple. The games I really like, especially multiplayer games, lend to that kind of response for me.